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• Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action. Replaces "subject" in placement typology.
• Tuition agent, a person who represents a tuition agency in searching for suitable tutors for students.
• Agent (law), a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
  • literary agent, a person who represents a writer
  • theatrical agent
  • booking agent
  • sports agent, a professional who represents an athlete
  • talent agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses.
  • Press agent, publicist who acts on behalf of a client on all matters involving public relations
  • Foreign agent, someone registered with the U.S. Justice Department as mandated by the Foreign Agents Registration Act
• Agent (economics)
• Special agent, generally, a federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective.
• Espionage, secret agent, a spy
• Double agent, in spying
• Election agent, a person responsible for a candidate's campaign
• Free agent, a sports player who is out of contract
• Real estate broker, or real estate agent
• Yacht broker, or yacht agent
• Yacht charter broker, or yacht charter agent
• Agent provocateur, a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another
• Agent noun (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)
• Rational agent (in philosophy), deliberate being

In science

• Agent Orange, a herbicide
• biological agent, an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare

In technology

• Robot a mechanical or virtual agent
• Forté Agent, a newsreader and email client
• software agent, software that acts on behalf of a user
  • intelligent agent, an intelligent software agent
  • user agent, a client application used with a particular network protocol

In fiction

• Agent 212, a Belgian comic
• Agents, characters in The Matrix
• Secret Agent (1936 film), a 1936 film
• The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
• Agent 47, a character from the computer game series Hitman

In finance

• Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan between the syndicate banks and the borrower. The most common form is the "Administrative Agent".

In popular culture

• Polish version of The Mole.
• Agents, a Finnish rock band.

In linguistics, a grammatical agent is an entity that carries out an action. ... For the journal, see Linguistic Typology. ... Tuition agencies are commercial organisations who specialise in introducing tutors to students who require their help. ... In British, Australian, New Zealand, and some Canadian universities, a tutor is often but not always a postgraduate student or a lecturer assigned to conduct a seminar for undergraduate students, often known as a tutorial. ... Agency is an area of law dealing with a contractual or quasi-contractual relationship between at least two parties in which one, the principal, authorizes the other, the agent, to represent her or his legal interests and to perform legal acts that bind the principal. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up Agent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... A sports agent is a person who procures and negotiates employment and endorsement deals for an athlete. ... A talent agent is a person who finds jobs for actors, musicians, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses. ... A press agent is a professional publicist who acts on behalf of his or her client on all matters involving public relations. ... A foreign agent is, in United States law, an entity registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. ... The Foreign Agents Registration Act is a United States law passed in 1938 requiring information from foreign sources to be properly identified to the American public. ... In economics, an agent is an element of a model who solves an optimization problem. ... // Any federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective in the 1811, 1801, 2501 or similar job series as so titled according to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) handbook. ... Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ... A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ... In elections in the United Kingdom, an election agent is the person responsible for the conduct of a candidates political campaign. ... In North American professional sports, particularly baseball, football, and basketball, a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired, and the player is able to sign a contract with another team. ... A real estate broker is a party who acts as an intermediary between sellers and buyers of real estate and attempts to find sellers who wish to sell and buyers who wish to buy. ... A yacht broker is a specialist agent who acts as a representative for the sale of a yacht or boat. ... Yacht chartering is the practice of renting, or chartering, a sailboat or motor yacht and travelling to various coastal or island destinations. ... An agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs) is a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another. ... In linguistics, agent noun (or nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action (A) and that has the meaning `entity that does A. Agent noun (or nomen agentis) is also the name of this derivational meaning (also called a derivateme). ... A rational agent takes actions which, given its knowledge of its environment, maximizes its chances of success. ... For other uses, see Agent Orange (disambiguation). ... A sampling of Bacillus anthracis—Anthrax A biological agent is an infectious disease that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare. ... For other uses, see robot (disambiguation). ... Forté Agent Forté Agent is a news client used on the Windows operating system. ... In computer science, a software agent is an abstraction, a logical model that describes software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency. ... Simple reflex agent Learning agent The terms agent and intelligent agent are ambiguous and have been used in two different, but related senses, which are often confused. ... A user agent is the client application used with a particular network protocol; the phrase is most commonly used in reference to those which access the World Wide Web. ... Agent 212, Cover of the first issue Agent 212 is the name of a humorous Belgian comic about a fat police officer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Secret agent (disambiguation). ... Seven Samurai 20XX ) is a PlayStation 2 game released by Sammy Studios in 2004. ... For other uses, see Hitman (disambiguation). ... A syndicated loan (or syndicated bank facility) is a large loan in which a group of banks work together to provide funds for a borrower. ... This article is about the association term. ... For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... In finance, a Borrower is being referred to as the person or company which a person or company has lent financial funds (money) to (the Lender. ... For the South Park character, see Mole (South Park) For the hip hop artist, see The Mole (emcee/producer) The Mole is a reality television game show. ...

See also

• Robot